3 Minute Action: Demand that the Colorado “Beetle Task Force” Follow the Science

Please consider taking 3 minutes to contact Colorado’s “Ponderosa Mountain Pine Beetle Task Force” and demand that it stop exploiting native insects unrelated to wildfire to promote a pre-determined public lands logging agenda. Background: Formed in December 2025 by Governor Jared Polis in reaction to the latest natural wave of native mountain pine beetles in…

Colorado’s Pine Beetle Task Force Reveals Agenda to Log Public Forests

-by Josh Schlossberg, Colorado Advocate, Eco-Integrity Alliance The State of Colorado’s Ponderosa Mountain Pine Beetle Task Force’s new “Comprehensive Work Plan” reveals what appears to be a pre-determined agenda to downplay, distort, and/or dismiss the consensus of peer-reviewed science to exploit the latest natural wave of native insects to reroute more taxpayer dollars to fund…

Pro-Clearcutting Candidate for Lieutenant Governor Lesley Dahlkemper’s Dismal Track Record on Participatory Democracy

-Opinion by Josh Schlossberg In my twenty-five years of interfacing with elected officials as a public interest advocate, Jefferson County Commissioner and candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Lesley Dahlkemper, has been the most anti-democratic I’ve come across. Whether it’s routing tax dollars to expand government control, ignoring the consensus of peer-reviewed science, or dismissing constituent concerns…

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